[Networker] LTO-2 or LTO-3?
2005-12-19 11:10:03
Hi,
We're thinking to upgrade to LTO-2 or LTO-3 drives. We're currently
using LTO-1 drives (Seagate) on an STK L80. Does anyone have any advice
on this issue? We're mostly looking for higher capacity. We'd be running
Legato 7.x on a Dell poweredge 6650 storage node, running RedHat Linux,
to manage the library with Solaris running on the primary server. We'd
be using LSI HBA LVD/SE cards (dual channel cards with 320 MBps per
channel), which I would think would be more than fast enough.
Any bad experiences you'd care to share? Any particular vendor like IBM
versus HP you prefer? Howe about the media?
We'd most likely purchase Fugi and/or Maxell tapes. We've had problems
in the past with off-brand LTO-1 media.
Obviously, LTO-3 media will be more expensive, and we could not write to
our older gen 1 media (read-only), whereas with LTO-2 we could read and
write to our older media, but LTO-3 will write much faster and have
higher capacity. Not sure how long LTO-3 has been around, but the Legato
compatibility guide shows our L80 as supporting either the IBM or HP
LTO-2 or LTO-3 drives, so I guess LTO-3 is fully supported under Legato 7.x
Thanks.
George
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